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...roots of the VA's reformation go back to 1994, when Bill Clinton appointed Kenneth Kizer, a hard-charging doctor and former Navy diver, as the VA's under secretary for health. Kizer decentralized the VA's cumbersome health bureaucracy and held regional managers more accountable. Patient records were transferred to a system-wide computer network, which has made its way into only 3% of private hospitals. When a veteran is treated, the doctor has the vet's complete medical history on a laptop. In the private sector, 20% of all lab tests are needlessly repeated because the doctor doesn...
...That bounty of black candidates is no coincidence. Republicans have long sought to improve their relations with African Americans, and one tactic they're employing is to get the few black Republicans in politics to run for office. Kenneth Blackwell, the Ohio secretary of state who is running for Governor, was first encouraged by officials in the Administration of President George H.W. Bush in 1990 to contest a congressional seat, and while he lost that campaign, he has won a string of races in Ohio since then to make him a huge player in G.O.P. politics in the state. More...
Patricia M. Nolan ’80 joins Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 in opposition to Fowler-Finn’s contract renewal...
...speak." Actually, it's more like someone's saying, "That's not much of a cat you got," and Mike pulls the guy's guts through his nose. In Spillane, nearly every charged conversation between males escalates pronto into a fight. Hammer hits first. And, as J. Kenneth Van Dover notes in his astute, fairly critical Murder in the Millions (about Gardner, Hammett and Fleming), Hammer's pugilistic repertoire relies as much on his knees and his feet as on his fists. That's sensible, since the hand is more vulnerable to breaking. But it's also, in the Marquis...
...elite university is to escape personal interaction, Slavitt points to State Sen. Jarrett T. Barrios ’91 as someone who has mastered the niceties of campaigning. (He does, to his "credit," fail to mention that many other Harvard alumni have found success as politicians in Cambridge; Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 and City Councilor Brian P. Murphy ’86 are just two examples...